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32 Philadelphia Bar Rep. 1 (2003)

handle is hein.barjournals/phlbrrpr0032 and id is 1 raw text is: I,.- . Jaury20 TeM ntl ew Se fth hlaepiaBr soiainVo.3, o Cnancellor Audrey C. ialley (center) is greetea Dy Bar members beTore ner address at tne Annual Meeting on Uec. 1U, as 2UU2 Sandra Day O'Connor Award recipient Ellen T. Greenlee and former Chancellor Andre L. Dennis look on. Complete coverage of the Annual Meeting can be found on Pages 9 to 11. Chirls Elected Vice Chancellor by Daniel A. Cirucci Andrew A. Chirls, a litigation partner with Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis- Cohen LLP, was elected Vice Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association on Dec. 10, which means that, in 2005, he will become the first openly gay attor- ney to serve as Chancellor of America's oldest chartered metropolitan bar asso- ciation. The Philadelphia Bar Association is the first bar association of a state or major city to elect an openly gay leader in a contested election. Chirls, 46, will serve as Vice Chancellor of the Association in 2003, as Chancellor-Elect in 2004, and auto- matically move up to the Chancellor's post the following year. Chirls defeated Chirls challenger Allan K. Marshall by a count of 2,418 votes to 506 votes. 'It is an honor to be elected to this post at such a challenging time. LIaders of the legal profession will have to articulate our concern for an open jus- tice system and individual rights while we fight terrorism, said Chirls. 'On a more local basis, we want to grow as a profession along with our city's econo- my, and our Bar Association has to help shape policies that will make people want to live and work here A native of Maplewood,N.J., Chirls served as chair of the Association's Board of Governors in 2000 and is cur- rently co-chair of the Special Comm- ittee on Strategic Planning for the Bar Association. He served as the first co- continued on page 2 N.J. Panel: Repeal Bona Fide Office Rule by Daniel A. Cirucci Barriers to Philadelphia lawyers who want to represent clients in neighboring New Jersey may soon be struck down, thanks to the persistence of the Association and recommendations released Dec. 12 by two committees of the New Jersey State Supreme Court. If the New Jersey Supreme Court accepts the committees'recommenda- tions, New Jersey's restrictive 'bona fide office rule that prevented many Philadelphia lawyers from practicing in the state will virtually disappear. Immediate-Past Chancellor Allan H. Gordon hailed the recommendations of the New Jersey Supreme Court's ad hoc committee on bar admissions and the Court's Commission on the Rules of Professional Conduct. 'We commend New Jersey on taking the first important step toward the elimination of a rule that needlessly restricted interstate prac- tice. This move opens the doors to the consumers of legal services and is con- sistent with the model rules of the American Bar Association and trends throughout the nation continued on page 14 4 4 Vsit the Phiadelphia Bar on the Web at www. phi ladephiatbar~org - Look fr Bar Reporter Online e-news.bref every Monday morning Talley Targets Government Regs on Business, Backs Pro Bono Push In This Issue ... Online CLE Bar Foundation Annual Meeting Feasts to Famine rwa MWIM mow

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